My father always thought me that we should always do our best even when we’re doing something that is not our expertise. I remember when he decided to change the old wooden baseboards of our living room to marble ones. He had never done that before, but he researched how to do it and with a levelling ruler and a lot of time during his vacations, he made the most straight line of baseboards. He probably took 5 times longer than a tile installer, but he did it and it was a piece of art. His determination on giving the best he possibly could always inspired me (and until not so long ago, pressured me) to do my best. I had to overcome that perfectionist drive he installed in my subconscious mind that made me drop several projects in the middle because I thought that they were not good enough. However, now I see that I just learned part of the lesson. “Do your best “ is what I have learned. What I just realized that he was also teaching me is “be persistent until it’s done.” I wrote all of this because yesterday was our daughter’s birthday party and we decided to make some pizza. @Pedro Trujillo once in a lifetime ago had a pizza delivery for a year, and he probably haven’t done so many pizzas in one day since he closed the pizzeria. He woke up early and started to make the dough - which counted more than 30 - he spent the whole party stretching doughs, adding toppings, baking the pizzas to serve our family and friends. At no moment he was complaining or letting go of the role he set to himself. He was enjoying doing something that other people were enjoying. The pizzas were a big success and despite the exhaustion after 5 + hours of party (we are Brazilians, it takes a lot to finish a party) he was happy that everything worked out as planned. He also thought me something with his attitude: do your best, until the end and have fun and joy on the process. *you can see a little bit of his back-to-old-times pizzaiolo version.

Today I was thinking about paradigms and choices. When we start studying ourselves, paying close attention to our habits, values, thoughts, feelings and actions we begin to uncover layers of conditioning programmed in our subconscious mind. As soon as we realize and acknowledge what we have been doing, we have 2 choices: keep doing the same things, sticking to what is familiar, therefore getting the same results, or we face the fear of the unknown and choose to do things differently. In my point of view, both demand courage: the first is courage to give up on your dreams and on a better version of you, while the second demands courage to step into something you have no idea how it is or how you are going to feel in this new situation. Any person who achieved great things by choosing differently can guarantee that without that choice they would’ve got nowhere near success. It might seem impossible, crazy or even painful at first sight, but when you decide to face the change you fear the most, that’s when the biggest growth happens. As Bashar said: “Habit is something you do that you don't know you're doing. Once you know you're doing it it's not a habit it's a choice. ...That's the belief you are attaching the highest level of benefit to." I know this subject is quite intense. So, to make it more fun, let’s play a game: tell me the paradigm you are choosing over and over again because of fear of what might happen if you dare to choose differently? Here is the fun: you cannot use words, only gifs. 3,2,1… Go! ***I know some of you will be like Gretta below. 😅 just have some fun! Transformation is much more efficient when we are able to laugh of ourselves.